Ā "I'm prepared to fight. Or are we waiting to see where he plants that axe?"
"Oh I am afraid I know exactly what he is going to do with that axe, Sai-san." Sagi turned to the mother and daughter behind him.
"He is here for them. To kill them, as he doubtless did in life. I know now the purpose of the spell. It is a necromantic transmutation aimed at the forest itself. You well know that magic is drawn from the land, and the kind of power pulled from the land is often defined by what happens there. A gruesome murder will warp the land around it and fill it with darkness. Someone has resurrected this family, victim and killer, and is making them repeat the atrocity over and over as part of a ritual to transform the forest into a font of dark mana. It is actually a little brilliant." Sagi admitted ruefully.
He turned to his Orochi companion with a grim frown. "The truth is, I think that our best course of action is simply to leave, consider" Sagi raised his clenched fist and went ticking off his fingers as he counted reasons "The first point. we still do not know the location of the sorcerer, nor do we know the epicenter of the spell. The second point, as horrible and powerful as this event is, it is not sufficient to convert such a vast portion of the forest as it has, not on its own. If I were performing such an operation, I would certainly find safety in redundancy. The worlds have no shortage of brutal occurrences, why rely on just one reenactment to fuel your power?
So, even if we stop this here, destroy the bodies and consecrate the land, we can not be sure that we will strip our enemy of all their power, but we can be certain that we will draw attention to ourselves. You yourself felt the dark will that found us when we first intruded in the forest. I think perhaps we can achieve more in the long run by turning our backs on the evil being committed here now..."
